Who do we work with?

The Software Sustainability Institute works with a range of projects - tackling everything from library searches to nuclear fusion.

If you would like assistance from the Institute, why not consider submitting an application into our Open Call, or get in touch?

Active projects

SPIKE: We're assessing the SPIKE computational neuroscience software to help enhance its community usability and sustainability.

QuimP: We're conducting a sustainability assessment of the QuimP cell motility analysis software, community resources and collaboration processes to assist in moving the software to an open development and dual licensing model which would also support commercial exploitation.

APEL: APEL is an HPC accounting tool that collects accounting data from sites participating in the EGI and WLCG infrastructures. The Institute is helping to make the software more reliable and accessible.

Completed projects

LUX-ZEPLIN: We provided consultancy to LUX-ZEPLIN's researchers at University College London on migrating data storage and analysis software from Microsoft Excel to a database-centred solution. Read the case study.

Synote: We've worked with Synote to improve their current development processes and infrastructure, and helped develop general best practice guidelines for development, deployment and testing.

ionomicsHUB: The Institute has assisted in the process of migrating the iHUB plant genomics service from Purdue University in the US to the University of Nottingham in the UK, to ensure the continued use and sustainability of the service for the community.

recipy: We've workied with the developers of recipy - an innovative way to track provenance in Python - to develop an automated test suite for recipy as a precursor to expanding the development of recipy and promoting recipy more widely.

Mantid: We've conducted development and community reviews of the Mantid neutron and muon data analysis software to feed into a high-level review of the project to shape its future development.

ReproPhylo: The Institute helped to make the software more sustainable by conducting a technical review of the software and testing infrastructure, and assisted in the exploration of ways to implement extensibility to interface with user tools.

Clipper: We have conducted a sustainability assessment of the Clipper video and audio clip sharing software, documentation and collaboration processes, to help enhance its longer-term maintenance.

MONC - prompting adoption and ongoing development: we worked with EPCC and the Met Office to promote the uptake, and ongoing development, of the Met Office NERC cloud (MONC) model within the atmospheric sciences community. We assessed how easy it is to deploy MONC, helped set up a MONC virtual machine and advised on setting up resources for engaging with and supporting researchers. Read the case study.

CGPACK: We've helped to improve the CGPACK microstructure simulations library for new users and developers, automating its build process and helping to design a regression test suite to ensure results correctness. We also assessed the overall sustainability of the software.

RTI-VIPS: We have dramatically simplified the deployment process for their Reflectance Transformation Imaging software, packaging these complex components into an installer designed for use by researchers in the humanities.

Cadabra: The Institute has worked with the symbolic quantum field theory computation software Cadabra to enhance it's open source repository, with improved support for developer and specifically user community activities, and to improve maintainability on multiple platforms.

ProtoMS: We've helped to prepare the statistical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics ProtoMS software for wider use beyond its initial research group and existing users, introducing an automated test suite and assessing the sustainability of the software for longer-term improvement.

Provenance Tool Suite - round-trip testing: we've assisted provenance researchers within Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton to introduce a test infrastructure to perform round-trip testing of their Provenance Tool Suite, a suite of software packages and services for handling W3C PROV-compliant provenance information. Read the case study.

Aircraft Geometry and Surrogate Modelling: András Sóbester and Alexander Forrester, within the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, have developed supervised learning codes for cost-effective aerospace engineering design. We provided consultancy to them on release management and community engagement.

BioJS - taking biological data visualization to next level: the Institute helped the BioJS community software along the road to production level, improving the sustainability of the project's community efforts and increasing the efficiency and organisation of their software development practices.

TPLS - parallel sustainability: we have helped to improve the usability, maintainability and flexibility of this innovative fluid dynamics code, complementing work to improve its robustness, flexibility, and performance. Read the case study.

SPRINT - making HPC accessible: we've helped to improve engagement with users, make their code more robust and able to process new types of data, and provide better resources and support available for users. Read the case study.

BRIC - making software accessible to new users: two software tools developed by the Brain Research Imaging Centre have been licensed and made publicly available on SourceForge, allowing the team to receive useful community feedback for improvement and raising the profile of the Centre. Read the case study.

ECIAS - increasing simulation capability and throughput: the University of East Anglia's CIAS climate model has been extended to enable new types of climate simulation, and the software adapted to make use of a computational cluster which has greatly increased the number of simulations that can be run simultaneously. Read the case study.